Posts tagged with "Buffy The Vampire Slayer"

As it’s 14 February, Valentine’s Day, here are 14 memorable sci-fi and fantasy romances to get you in the mood (in no particular order)…
14 Buttercup & Westley
From: The Princess Bride
Westley: “This is true love – you think this happens every day?”
“Is this a kissing book?” moans the young boy who’s being read a bedtime story by his granddad, a look of disgust on his face. But by the end of the film that young...

Author: Rupert Giles (though we suspect that he may have had some help from Nancy Holder)
Publisher: Titan Books
Published: OUT NOW
So, 12 years after the show finished, how can publishers still find new ideas for books about Buffy The Vampire Slayer? More to the point how can Nancy Holder find anything new to say about Buffy The Vampire Slayer? She’s not only written an entire library of Buffy and Angel fiction, she’s also authored...

With this year’s Strictly Come Dancing just about to end, we thought we’d collect together some of sci-fi and fantasy’s most notorious and/or bizarre dance scenes to see what the judges would make of them…
Gamer
Performer: Ken Castle (Michael C Hall)
Music: “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”
Bruno Tonioli: You jerk and twitch like a puppet having its strings cut one by one. It was brave. It was modern. It was very strange. I...

Fans went wild as Felicia Day emerged from the wings, beaming at the enthusiastic turn-out. She waved and waved before curtsying to the right, then bowing to the left, and finishing with a little pirouette. “Thank you very much,” she said, “I’m so happy to be here. It’s been fantastic to meet so many people with accents, very exotic, even, from Wales! Those who are Welsh, the voice, it’s lovely. Very nice.”
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Comic con or cruise? If this decision has you all at sea, why not do both! Launching for the first time this year, ComicCon at Sea offers traditional shore excursions and various cruise offerings during the day, with the evenings dedicated to convention specific programming.
Embarking from Barcelona on 14 June 2015, this seven-day luxury European cruise takes place aboard Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas. Joining around 500 other fans, guests...

To coincide with the Priority Entry Tickets for the MCM London Comic Con in May going on sale, MCM have announced their first special guest for the show – Felicia Day.
Having appeared in TV shows such as Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse, Supernatural and Eureka, she also wrote, produced and starred in the web series The Guild and Dragon Age: Redemption. Felicia Day is also the founder of the hugely successful YouTube channel Geek & Sundry....

Have you ever wondered what Buffy The Vampire Slayer would look like if the series had continued but as a cartoon?
Well thanks to the talented artist/animator Stephen Byrne, you can now get an idea of what the opening titles of such a show would look like (Click play below to watch the video).
The video also features a new version of the show’s iconic theme by composer Jeff Ball and too many cool references for us too list. The video even appears...

Every year fans flock to San Diego Comic Con for a chance to see the star studded panels, meet their heroes and check out the awesome cosplay. They also have the opportunity to pick up some of the incredible exclusive items that the dealers have on offer at the event.
With everyone from 2000 AD to Adobe Photoshop offering a variety of limited edition offerings, it is no wonder that this side of the event has become a fan and indeed collector’s...

With festival season almost upon us, Bournemouth University has announced the final schedule for its annual Festival of Learning. To be held across the university’s campus between June 9-15th the festival contains over 150 free events that cover a variety of topics including video game development, how to write a novel and even Doctor Who.
Here are just a few highlights that we discovered while looking through the programme:
Life and death...

Having observed certain power shifts within the television industry throughout the 80s and 90s, self-proclaimed “die-hard TV geeks” Des Doyle, John Wallace and Ryan Patrick McGuffey hit upon the idea of creating a film that would document the rise of the TV showrunner. Widespread interest in the topic enabled them to fund the project through Kickstarter, and at this May’s MCM London Comic Con, the creators of the now completed...